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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0.5 / XF86 3.11 Performance Date: 26 Jul 1995 19:12:31 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3v642v$ds5@helena.MT.net> References: <PHILS.95Jul25144451@satori.tv.tek.com> <PHILS.95Jul25221207@satori.tv.tek.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <PHILS.95Jul25221207@satori.tv.tek.com>, Phil Staub <phils@satori.tv.tek.com> wrote: >In article <PHILS.95Jul25144451@satori.tv.tek.com> phils@satori.tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) writes: >> Having just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 and XFree86 3.1.1 on my system, I >> was somewhat dismayed to see that graphics performance seems to have >> slowed ... .... >He wanted to see how slowly xengine would run when he toggled the turbo >switch to the "slow" position. Imagine his surprise (and mine) when it >went back up to the speed I'm used to seeing it run at! ... >I now suspect that something in the boot sequence is reading the >switch and mis-interpreting its setting, then setting a control >register to low speed. The turbo button is a hardware switch, and not a software switch. AFAIK, the kernel can't do anything to affect the speed of the motherboard. Are you *sure* the switch didn't get reversed somehow? Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fishing? Send me email, and we'll home #: (406) 443-7063 | setup something.